Indians traded horses for guns with Europeans, allowing them to pursue war more effectively with rival tribes and white settlers.
Companies can modify their business models to generate new virtuous cycles that enable them to compete more effectively with rivals.
The Asian airline All Nippon Airways is preparing to set up a new, low-cost carrier flying Boeing 737 planes to compete more effectively with rivals on shorter routes.
BA said today's announcement was a significant step towards strengthening customer choice and would enable oneworld to compete effectively with rival global air alliances that have already received transatlantic anti-trust (competition rules) immunity.
"Our exporters need to be able to compete more effectively with rivals on the continent and further afield, who are currently better supported during difficult economic environments or in riskier foreign markets.
Gerard Arpey, chairman and chief executive of AMR Corp, the parent company of American Airlines, said: "We believe our proposed cooperation is an important step towards ensuring that we can compete effectively with rival alliances and manage through the challenges of record fuel prices and growing economic concerns.
Computational results carried out on a standard set of 135 benchmark problems show that a simple F&F design competes effectively with prior CMST metaheuristics, rivaling the best methods, which are significantly more complex.
So far, both Amazon and eBay have had no choice but to operate as online marketplaces in India, limiting their ability to compete effectively with local rivals such as Flipkart.
The Mayhem campaign is meant to open a second front for Allstate in the insurance wars, say executives from Burnett and Allstate, to compete more effectively with price-oriented rivals like Geico.
"Doing so could radically change the company and potentially turn off some consumers". But Moas – who earlier this year blacklisted business giants Apple, Amazon and Philip Morris on "moral and ethical grounds" – said American Apparel should move some of its production overseas in order to compete effectively with fast fashion rivals such as H&M and Zara.
It learned to compete effectively with long-established rivals in Europe and to deal with the varied and sundry problems that inevitably arise in producing crops and bringing them to market.
